Zehnhausen bei Rennerod

Zehnhausen bei Rennerod is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is one of two communities named Zehnhausen in the Westerwaldkreis, the other being Zehnhausen bei Wallmerod.GeographyLocationZehnhausen lies on the basalt knoll of the High Westerwald on an average elevation of more than 530 m above sea level. The community lies right on Bundesstraße 54, the “Mainz Road”, a mediaeval trade road. It comes from Mainz and leads to Siegen. The road, however, had hardly any influence on the community’s development. Zehnhausen bei Rennerod belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rennerod, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town.HistoryThe placename with the ending –hausen would seem to indicate that the community arose at the time of the greatest wave of Frankish settlement in the Westerwald from the 6th century to the 11th.Zehnhausen has for uncounted years belonged to the parish of Emmerichenhain, which since the Reformation has been Evangelical.